Improvement in glove-fasteners



W." H. STOREY. Glove-Fastener.

No. 214,596 Patented April 22, 1879;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM H. STOREY, OF ACTON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVE-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,596, dated April 22, 1879; application filed March 3, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HEsLoP STOREY, glove manufacturer, of the village of Acton, in the county of Halton, Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring Glovebined with a hook and eye for the purpose of forming a fastening, said hook and eye being formed from the same piece of wire that forms the spring. The spring is applied in such a manner as to keep the glove open when the hook is disengaged, and when shut to draw the entire opening together as advantageously as any number of buttons. It also forms a stronger and more complete fastening, and one that is easier to adjust or undo than buttonfastenings.

The following are some of the advantages that I claim for my fastener: First, that it is in no way liable to get out of order by constant use, as is the case with gloves fastened with buttons or hinged springs; second, that it is more readily adjusted than any fastener made; third, that it effects a great saving on the glove; fourth, that it will last longer than the glove; fifth, that it is as cheap as any fastener made, and more durable.

Figure I in the accompanying drawings shows the spring open. Fig. II shows it closed and fastened, A being the hook, and B the eye.

0 and C are lugs, to facilitate the wearer in unfastening the hook and eye. i

The spring and fastener and lugs can b made of one piece of brass wire, steel, iron, or any other suitable metal, and it can be either round, flat, or half-round.

The fastener can be made of various designs without altering the principle of the invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A spring glove-fastener consisting of a wire coiled at one end to form a spring, and

provided with a hook, A, and eye B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A spring glove-fastener consisting of a single piece of wire formed with the hook A and eye B, and constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. A glove-fastener consisting of a springwire formed with hook and eye A B and lugs O G, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WILLIAM HESLOP STOREY.

Witnesses:

GEO. S. STREET, W. H. BEATTY. 

